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A selection of Pokémon characters.
A selection of Pokémon characters. Photograph: pr
A selection of Pokémon characters. Photograph: pr

Pokémon Go quiz – can you catch the fake news story?

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It’s been more than a week since Pokémon Go took over the world – and now the only things that are more common than a Zubat are daft stories about people playing the game. Can you tell the Pokéfact from the Pokéfib in our Pokémon Go news quiz?

It’s hard to say which yet, but Pokémon Go is either the saviour of all mankind, or the newest stage of natural selection. We have been inundated with stories about Pokémon Go of late, and how the game has either improved someone’s life or massively endangered it. But how closely have you been paying attention? Which of these things actually happened?

  1. 1.Two men in California were so busy playing Pokémon Go that they fell off a 90ft cliff.
  2. 2.A French woman claims to have lost 4kg by playing Pokémon Go for a week.
  3. 3.A teenage girl was so busy playing Pokémon Go that she wandered onto a main road and got hit by a car.
  4. 4. Level 23 Pokémon Go accounts are selling for $5,000 on eBay.
  5. 5.A wanted criminal was arrested in Michigan because he walked into a police station that was listed as a Pokémon gym.
  6. 6.A German man was detained after running on to a football pitch to catch a Pokémon during a match.
  7. 7.A New Zealander has quit his job to hunt Pokémon full-time.
  8. 8.David Cameron has been sighted catching Pokémon in the Witney Cineworld car park.
  9. 9.Firefighters had to rescue a trapped Pokémon Go player from an abandoned air raid shelter in Hampshire.
  10. 10. Campaign organisers for Hillary Clinton have been loitering at known Pokestops and asking players to register to vote.
  11. 11.A Maine resident has been hospitalised for sleep deprivation after playing Pokémon Go non-stop for 92 hours.
  12. 12.Psychologists have claimed that Pokémon Go can help treat depression.
  13. 13. A technology website has introduced mandatory Pokémon Go breaks for all its staff.
  14. 14. A Montana teen was reprimanded by police after riding her horse across a busy intersection while playing Pokémon Go.
  15. 15.The Bosnian government has warned citizens not to play Pokémon Go on minefields.
  16. 16.An Egyptian politician has proposed erecting wireless broadband jammers around state institutions, in order to keep Pokémon players away.
  17. 17.The first marriage between people who met playing Pokémon Go has already taken place in Dusseldorf.
  18. 18. Someone in Gloucestershire called 999 to report a stolen Pokémon.
  19. 19.Four separate Pokémon Go players have sought medical treatment after being attacked by seagulls in Blackpool.
  20. 20.Two Pokémon Go players were shot at by a man who mistook them for burglars.

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